I've noticed a resurgence in many flowers in my garden, with a healthy crop of new leaves and flower spikes pushing up from the lupins that I only cut back a few months ago, expecting them to lie dormant until the spring. I'm not the only one noticing this, with the BBC posting an article and a separate video on the topic. It's fair to say that it's been an odd year weather-wise with extreme heat in May, a lacklustre 'summer' and now heat again as we head towards October.

Apparently we're also in for a colourful Autumn more generally, as the weather patterns should result in vivid leaf colours, which are already apparent in many cases.